Simple ceremonies were held in two separate places; at the mass burial ground for the victims and the crash site in Padang Bulan near Polonia Airport in Medan.
Ummi Salamah, widow of victim Fahmi Nasution, said the event was held spontaneously to commemorate the tragedy.
She said neither Mandala Airlines management or the provincial administration were involved and that since the families of dead had been paid insurance, they had been ignored by the authorities.
"Mandala has stopped paying attention to us, maybe because they have paid the insurance. But we find it uncivilized since for us, the insurance is not everything. Who is willing to lose a husband?" Ummi told The Jakarta Post at Polonia Airport on Wednesday.
She said that they still had not been told of the cause of the crash.
"Honestly, many relatives of the victims do not know what caused the crash. I don't know for sure myself. I just heard from others that the place was overloaded. Whether this is true or not I don't know since there's been no explanation," said Ummi, who has two children.
Yati, the wife of another victim, said she heard that the National Commission on Transportation Safety had announced the cause of the crash but she did not know the details.
"Mandala management should have informed the relatives of the commission's finding so we wouldn't feel left out," she said.
University students who are members of the North Sumatra New Generation group also took part in the event.
During the three-hour ceremony at the crash site, the students displayed photos of the tragedy and demanded that the new Kuala Namu airport in Deli Serdang regency be completed as soon as possible named Tengku Rizal Nurdin International Airport instead.
Tengku Rizal Nurdin was the North Sumatra governor who died in the crash on Sept. 5, 2005.
Also dead in the crash, which killed 99 passengers and 49 residents on the ground, was former North Sumatra governor Raja Inal Siregar and Regional Representative Council Abdul Halim Harahap. Fifteen passengers survived.
Currently, Boeing Co., the world's second largest maker of commercial airplanes and the manufacturer of the downed plane, is being sued in the U.S. by the estates of nine people killed in the Medan crash.
Filed in federal court in Chicago on Aug. 28, the complaint also names as a defendant United Technologies Corp., whose Pratt & Whitney subsidiary made the engines that powered the Boeing 737-200 plane.
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